2026
Franca: Nested Matryoshka Clustering for Scalable Visual Representation Learning
Shashanka Venkataramanan, Valentinos Pariza, Mohammadreza Salehi, Lukas Knobel, Elias Ramzi, Spyros Gidaris +2
CVPR 2026
We present Franca (pronounced Fran-ka): free one; the first fully open-source (data, code, weights) vision foundation model that matches and in many cases surpasses the performance of state-of-the-art proprietary models, e.g., DINOv2, CLIP, SigLIPv2, etc. Our approach is grounded in a transparent tr